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Breastfeeding Changes After 3 Months
Nursing Changes at 3 Months and Beyond
By Jennifer M. MacLeod
By day, too, my baby has started taking the lead. First by smell, and then by sight, an older baby recognizes your breast and dives in first frantically, then happily, as she reconnects.
Jennifer Sprague, 28, of Virginia, initially gave herself three weeks to breastfeed. "But when I made it there, I said, 'We're not enjoying this yet; I can't stop,'" she says. "So I said 6 weeks, but at 6 weeks we were still having issues ... so I said 2 months ... by 3 months we were enjoying it so much we couldn't stop."
Just like walking out of the movie, Diamond Padwa says, "many moms quit without ever experiencing the pleasurable aspects of breastfeeding." Like the little unspoken conversations my baby and I have with our eyes while she breastfeeds. Sprague knows this, too. "[He] looks at me while nursing like nothing could shake his world," she says. "If everything else ended, he would be OK, because I was there nursing him."
But it's not all mushy gazes. Every day breastfeeding brings new surprises. Though I may have hoped that someday we'd resemble a serene Madonna tableau, it turns out my older nursing baby loves to wiggle, kick, scratch and knead the closest handy object – me. Still, these tiny bruises are the badges of a breastfeeding mom who's made it beyond that magical moment. I wear them all with pride.
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Breastfeeding Changes After 3 Months by Anonymous on 01/03/2010 03:40PM
i know what you mean. My daughter refused to feed after 7mths but im kind of glad as she was pinching me badly and pulling my hair but those seven months were totally amazing and i will miss it forever x